Sunday that pesky tornado that has been following Dorothy of Kansas for years, picks up her modern counterpart in Tin Man, Sci-Fi Channel’s reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

And ABC says lives will be changed on Desperate Housewives when a tornado touches down on Wisteria Lane at 8 p.m. The episode is titled Something’s Coming.

TORNADO WATCH

If you can’t have an evil twin or shootout, storms are good ways to shake up a series. Here are some other TV tornadoes that blew through:

• Little House on the Prairie: Tornadoes were always threatening the Ingalls. In the Going Home episode, the family’s farm is wiped out. In Days of Sunshine, Days of Shadow, Laura and Almanzo’s house was destroyed after Almanzo had been stricken by a stroke.

• WKRP: A tornado hits Cincinnati after Herb unplugs the teletype because it was making too much noise. Les, improvising with civil defense plan written during the Cold War, announces: “Ladies and gentleman, the WKRP listening area is under attack from the godless tornadoes.”

• King of the Hill: In Texas City Twister, Luann’s trailer is blown to bits.

• Soap opera tornadoes:One Life to Live’s Llanview and All My Children’s Pine Valley are in tornado alley.

• Beavis and Butt-head: A tornado in a trailer park interrupts the boys plans to get closer to Lolita and Tanqueray.

• That ’70s Show: The episode is called Tornado Prom, but the storm misses Point Place.

• Roseanne: This tornado also spares the stars of the show, but Toto, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore is a popular episode.

• Zorro: Tornado was the name of the avenger’s trusty black steed.

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HOLD ON: Hank Hill and the people of Arlen know how to deal with tornadoes.